Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“Persons, such as patients or eldered people, are sometimes ca mera monitored in hospitals, nursinghomes, or service houses in order to better ensure their safety in situations where the medical staff cannotbe present at all times.“By camera monitoring, a single health care worker or other supervisor can monit or persons and/orthe activity of the persons in several rooms at the same time, and possibly prevent a patient from leavinga room unauthorized or incidents fr om happening to a patient, so that a better safety level of livingis achieved. By automatic camera monitoring, it is possible to make automatic alarms for heal th careworkers of undesired situations, for example, falling of a person or una uthorized leaving from the roometc., detected from image data.
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